The Associated Press is one of the few national news agencies to report on the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, but the oft-criticized news outlet is getting criticism from pro-lifers for excusing the actions of his staff.

Matt Vespa of Newsbusters noticed how AP is whitewashing their own involvement in infanticides, abortions and brutal practices at Gosnells abortion clinic.

When the grand jury report in the Kermit Gosnell trial was released yesterday, one would think that the media would have as the primary takeaway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvanias documentation of the numerous atrocities committed in this house of horrors. Yet, for the Associated Press, the real victims seemed to be Gosnells employees, those poor folks who had no job prospects than infanticide, he said.

Of the eight co-workers charged in the aftermath of Gosnells arrest, three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Nonetheless, they all say that they were just doing what they were instructed to do, simply following orders, Vespa added.

He noted how conservative writer Ed Morrissey of Hot Air also pointed out the bias in the AP piece.

Morrissey posted about MaryClaire Dale of AP, and her April 12 story that lamented how these workers had few options for employment:

In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage, paid by Gosnell under the table.

But for most, it was the best job they could find.

Unlicensed doctor Stephen Massof, 50, of Pittsburgh, said he could not get a U.S. medical residency after finishing medical school in Grenada and went to work for Gosnell as a backup plan after six years running a bar. He admitted killing two babies by snipping their necks, as he said Gosnell taught him to do.

Eileen ONeill, 56, had worked as a doctor in Louisiana but relinquished her medical license in 2000 to deal with post-traumatic stress syndrome, according to her 2011 grand jury testimony. She is the only employee on trial with Gosnell, fighting false billing and racketeering charges.

According to one colleague, ONeill was increasingly upset at the line of people who came to Gosnells adjacent medical clinic for painkillers. And she was angry that he wasnt helping her regain her license.

She said: `All I do is break my neck for him all the time, and he never does anything for me. Im going to have to do something about it, front desk worker Tina Baldwin testified this week, recalling a conversation with ONeill.

Sherry West, who testified that a baby screamed when it was killed, had been a longtime surgical technician at the Veterans Administration but quit in 2007 after contracting Hepatitis C. A year later, still waiting on disability benefits, she went to work for Gosnell. So, these people are complicit in murder, but they should given empathy by us because they hit some rough patches in their lives. Ed Morrissey aptly noted that:

[O]ne could understand if they took the job out of desperation, but left when they saw the conditions and the practice of killing live infants born after botched abortions. It might be more understandable if they had alerted authorities about both after leaving. Instead, though, these adults  most if not all of them well into middle age  made the conscious decision to get paid to endanger and maim women, at least one of whom died, and kill babies.

Judie Brown, the president of American Life League, laments the poor media coverage of the Gosnell murder trial.

It would be nice if I could write about the Kermit Gosnell trial with the assurance that every American was aware of this abortionists dastardly deeds. But sadly, since the mainstream media has for the most part ignored his trial, we cannot make such an assumption, she says. In America, we are being guided by the media, by lawmakers, and by others to feel selective outrage. But in the process we are ignoring the burning fires in our communities, our own families, and among our friends. We are being brainwashed into insensitivity toward the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters. It is also a disgusting picture of our nation. Its time for Americaincluding our mediato get real; slicing and dicing babies is not okay, she concludes.

This mentality of excusing the accomplice was rejected when we called Nazi members of Hitler’s human extermination program guilty of war crimes. On October 16, 1946, ten Nazi war criminals were hanged as a result of the Nuremberg Trials. There were a total of 202 German war criminals executed between 1945 and 1949, following a series of war trials e.g. the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials.

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posted on 04/14/2013 6:26:03 PM PDT
by jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)

So...anything goes if you hit a rough patch? Where does it end? Is it okay to deal drugs? Guess not, swat will storm your house. Okay to rob a bank? I think the FBI would not allow that. I guess it is only okay to murder innocent babies, medically treat women in filthy substandard conditions, and who knows what else these evil people did.

What really gets me is the liberals said they needed abortion to be legal to stop the back alley abortions that were preformed by unlicensed people in unsanitary conditions. Seems like legalizing abortion has not solved any issues after all. I didn’t believe it would at the time but many bought into it.

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posted on 04/14/2013 6:29:09 PM PDT
by Tammy8
(~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)

Of the eight co-workers charged in the aftermath of Gosnells arrest, three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Nonetheless, they all say that they were just doing what they were instructed to do, simply following orders, Vespa added.

yes it is murder but it is murder at any stage of the pregnancy
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I agree with you but as this is a legal proceeding and murder is legal prior to birth it is therefore not technically referred to as murder but merely a legal homicide if the baby had even a single toe still within the mothers body.

Gosnell and his staff are murderers without even that legal fig leaf to hide behind.

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posted on 04/15/2013 1:37:01 PM PDT
by Neidermeyer
(I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)

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